Word: aherne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge James Herbert Wilkerson to be sentenced for failure to pay tax on a $1,038,654 income and for conspiracy (with 5,000 offenses) to violate the Prohibition law, to which he had pleaded guilty. But to Judge Wilkerson had come word that between Capone's Attorney Michael Ahern and the Department of Justice existed an agreement whereby Capone would escape with a light sentence in return for a plea of guilty. Indignantly declared Judge Wilkerson: "It is utterly impossible to bargain with a Federal court." Then he allowed Capone to change his tax evasion plea to not guilty...
...vaudeville acts are no worse or no better than usual. "Mantell's Manikins" put on the best act of the program with a varied assortment of marionettes performing. Will and Gladys Ahern, formerly of Simple Simon, are a close second best with a repertoire of rope spinning and wisecracking. The other acts keep the average down...
...demolishing the building has been contracted by the Stets Company of Boston, who have agreed to have the building void of all machinery by April 12. The contract was sublet to two concerns, one the Zimble Company, which is removing the generators, and another the Shaughnessy and Ahern Company, which is taking out the old boiler equipment. The men working for Zimble were non union men, while those employed by Shaughnessy and Ahern were strictly union...